Swami Rape

A popular guru was arrested Saturday by police in north-western India for allegedly raping a 21-year-old woman. The second such arrest in the country in recent weeks has triggered fears of more rioting by supporters. Numerous gurus in India attract massive followings, with devotees often making long and arduous pilgrimages to attend their religious teachings The 70-year-old Falahari Maharaja was ...

AGRA: A watchman for the famous Radha Rani temple at Barsana in Mathura district, one of two suspects, was arrested on Friday for the alleged gang rape of a devotee from Odisha on the premises earlier this week. Police said the other suspect, who is on the run, worked at the temple as well. The two have been identified as ...

The Supreme Court was hearing a bail application filed by Asaram, who faces cases in Rajasthan and Gujarat. The Supreme Court on Monday raised questions about the delay in the trial of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who is accused of rape, and asked the Gujarat government to apprise it of the status of the case. The court was hearing a ...

A judge on Monday sentenced a popular and flamboyant Indian spiritual guru to a total of 20 years in prison on charges of raping two female followers. The sentences were pronounced amid intense security at a prison in the northern town of Rohtak where the guru, who calls himself Dr. Saint Gurmeet Singh Ram Rahim Insan, has been held since ...

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is not the first self-styled godman found breaking the law. Other “gurus” in India have been accused of rape, murder, cheating, and a variety of other crimes. Here are some religious and spiritual leaders who were arrested: Sant Rampal Just a day before Gurmeet Singh was convicted of rape, a court in Haryana deferred its verdict ...

Army deployed amid fears of violence as followers of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh gather outside court in Panchkula. An Indian court convicted a self-styled “godman” of rape as his followers gathered to show their support. Tens of thousands of supporters who had been waiting for hours near the court shouted in anger after the ruling was announced on Friday. Army ...

Several north Indian cities were under a security lockdown Thursday, a day before a court was expected to issue a verdict in a rape case involving the flamboyant leader of a quasi-religious sect. With tens of thousands of followers camped along roads near the barricaded courthouse, police and paramilitary soldiers fanned out across the town of Panchkula and nearby areas. ...

Spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, age 50, has the sort of following in Punjab and Haryana that politicians would kill for. Thousands of supporters of the “Guru of Bling” as he is known have begun mapping the routes between their villages and a court in Haryana, which is expected on Friday to decide whether he is guilty of raping ...

A court here has granted anticipatory bail to former ‘Bigg Boss’ contestant and self-proclaimed godman Swami Om, who was accused of molesting and threating a woman, court sources said on May 26, 2017. Special Judge Sanjay Garg on Tuesday allowed the anticipatory bail plea of Swami Om and asked him to furnish a personal bond of Rs 25,000. The court ...

A 23-year-old Indian woman has cut off the genitals of a Hindu religious teacher in the southern state of Kerala, claiming he raped her for years. Police said the suspect, named as Gangeshananda Theerthapada, would come to the woman’s house to perform prayer rituals for her father’s health. Her mother had hoped the self-styled holy man would ease the family’s ...